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Rusi Modi

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Rusitomji Sheriyar Modi

Born: 11 November 1924, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Died: 17 May 1996, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Major Teams: Parsees, Mumbai, India.
Known As: Rusi Modi
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium


Test Debut: India v England at Lord's, 1st Test, 1946
Last Test:
India v Pakistan at Bombay, 3rd Test, 1952/53

Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (career)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   10   17   1   736  112   46.00   1   6    3   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling               5      1    14    0    -     -      0   0    -   2.80

FIRST-CLASS
 (career: 1941/42 - 1959/60)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100s   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  105  154  12  7529  245*  53.02   20   29   0

                       R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10
Bowling             1226   32  38.31  5-25    1   0

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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A wristy strokeplayer, Rusi Modi combined elegance with a voracious appetite for runs. Tall and slim, he was the first batsman to score 1000 runs in a season in the Ranji Trophy and his feat of getting 1008 runs (201.00) in 1944-45 remained unsurpassed till WV Raman amassed 1018 runs, 44 years later. The previous season, he scored a record 215 for Parsees against Europeans in the Bombay Pentangular. He remains the only batsman to score five successive hundreds in the Ranji Trophy. He followed this remarkable run with a brilliant 203 not out in the third and final `Test' against the Australian Services team at Madras in 1945-46.

Amidst high expectations, Modi toured England in 1946 and in that wet summer performed commendably getting 1196 runs (37.37). He played with reasonable success in all three Tests. He missed the tour of Australia in 1947-48 due to ill health but touched superb form in the series against West Indies the following season, scoring 560 runs, which remained the Indian record till Vijay Manjrekar surpassed it in 1961-62. This run included his only century in Tests, 112 at Bombay. Thereafter his career was anti climactic for though he played against the two Commonwealth teams and once each against England in 1951-52 and against Pakistan the following season, he was never again the commanding figure at the crease. He however continued to play with much success for Bombay and in the Ranji Trophy he scored 2696 runs (81.69) with ten hundreds. In a two decade long first class career he scored 7509 runs (53.63) with 20 centuries. He died following a fall at the Brabourne stadium. (Partab Ramchand)


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